Improvement in corn-harvesters



E. J. ENO.

Corn Harvester.

Pahr-mted Dec. 15, 1863.

Witnesses: Inventor:

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ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO STEPHEN H.

ENO, or SAME PLACE.-

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,979, dated December 15, 1863.

vention, taken in the line as wFig.3; Fig. 2, a

transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the lineyy, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a new and improved machine for detaching the ears of corn from the standing stalks and depositing the former in a cart or wagon as the latter is drawn along over the field and in proper'relatiou with the rows of corn.

The invention consists in the employment or use of gathering or guide arms in connection with the rising and falling ear-detaching plates and an endless apron, the above-named parts being placed within a suitable box applied to one side of the cart or wagon, and all arranged, as hereinafter set forth, to effect the desired end.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand aiid construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents one side of a wagon-body, and B one of the back wheels of the wagon.

0 represents a box, which is secured to the side A of the wagon-body by means of four posts, 1), placed two at the front and two at the back part of the box 0, the outermost posts passing up at the inner surface of A, while the innermost posts are at its outer surface, keys E passing through the upper parts of D and over the top of A, as shown in Figs. 2 and By this arrangement the box 0 may be very expeditiously and firmly secured to the wagonbody. The box 0 has a slot or opening, F,

made in its bottom, and the outer side of said box, at its upper part, a, is inclined outward, and has two or more strips, I), attached vertically to its inner surface. The lower end of the outer sideof thebox G is even or flush and at the inner side of the slot or opening F there is a horizontal bar, 0, which is attached to two vertical posts, d d, between the upper parts of which there is secured a board, G, the outer surface of which is slightly inclined from a vertical position, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. To the front end of the part a of the outer side of the box 0, and to the front postd, there are attached guide-arms a, two (more or less) to each of the parts aforesaid. These guidearms are curved outward from their inner to their outer ends, asshown clearly in Fig. 3, and the lower ones are curved downward as well as outward. (See Fig. 1.)

To the posts d d there are attached vertically guides H B, one to each post, and between lowed to work freely up and down. Each of ff, and said bars have racks g formed on them, into which part PlHlOllS J J intermittently gear. These part pinions J J are placed on a shaft, K, the bearin gs ot'which are attached to the under side of the box 0, and on the back end of said shaft there is fitted a bevel-pinion, L, into which a corresponding pinion, M, gears, the latter being on a shaft, N, at the rear end of the box, and receiving its motion by a belt, 0, from a pulley, P, which is attached concentrically to the wheel B of the wagon. By this arrangement it will be seen that a continuous rotary movementis given theshaftKasthewagon is drawn along. placed on the shaft K that while the teeth of two of them, J J, engage with the racks of the pendent barsff of one plate, I, and elevate it,

of gear with the racks of the bars fof the other plate, 1, and allow it to fall. Thus the plates 1 I alternately rise and tall as the machine is drawn along, the plates falling by their own gravity only.

In the'back part of the box Ov there is placed an inclined endless apron, Q. This apron works over suitable rollers, Ii h, the lower roller It being at the back part and under side of the box 0, so as to bring the lower part of the apron Q at the back part of the slot or opening F.

with the outer side of the slot or opening F,

these guides the plates I l are fitted and althese platesis provided with two pendent bars,

The partpinionsJ J are so the teeth of the other pinions, J, will pass out The operation is as follows: The machineis l I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letdrawu along in the field with the guide-arms e in line with a row of corn. These arms a collect the standing stalks and cause them to enter properly the slot or opening F, and as the plates I I are forced upward they detach the ears from the stalks, the ears falling upon the apron Q owing to the pressing inward of the stalks in front, and the apron carries them upward and deposits them in the wagonbody.

I would remark that the apron Q may, if necessary, be provided with cross-slats to prevent the ears of corn from slipping upon it. The apron is driven by bevel-gears jj from the shaft N.

Having thus described my invention, what ters Patent, is-

1. The rising and falling plates I 1, operated by the part pinions J J, in combination with the guide-arms e and endless apron Q,

all being placed within or attached to a box.

0, applied to the body of a cart or wagon, to operate substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The particular manner of attaching the I box 0 to the wagon-body-to wit, by means of the posts D and keys E, as herein shown and set forth.

EDWARD J. ENO. Witnesses J. PIERSON, I. D. RAWLINGS. 

